Posted on 11/29/2016 7:47:41 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
Americans should wear hijabs to show solidarity with Muslim women who fear being attacked for wearing the religious head covering, CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota suggested on Monday, just hours before an Islamic radical stabbed students at Ohio State University.
“Maybe there will be a movement where people wear the head scarf in solidarity. You know, even if you’re not Muslim,” Camerota said during an early-morning broadcast on CNN’s “New Day.”
“Maybe it’s the way people shave their heads, you know, sometimes in solidarity with somebody who is going through something,” she added.
Camerota was responding to a CNN segment about Muslim women who say they live in fear of being verbally or physically attacked for wearing head scarves.
The segment tied a spate of alleged incidents in which Muslim women have been targeted for wearing hijabs to Donald Trump’s presidential win.
“The Trump Transition: Fearful Muslim women take steps to be safe,” read the chyron that CNN chose for the segment.
“I hope I can wear it one day again. I hope I can feel safe enough to do so,” Marwa Abdelghani, a Muslim-American woman, told the network.
The piece did not note that some of the alleged hate incidents in the aftermath of Trump’s win have been found to be hoaxes. An 18-year-old University of Louisana-Lafayette student was charged with filing a false report after she claimed that a group of white Trump supporters hurled racial slurs at her and stole her hijab several days after the election.
Ironically, hours after the CNN segment aired, an 18-year-old Somali refugee named Abdul Razak Ali Artan attempted to kill students at Ohio State University.
Artan, who was killed by a campus police officer after stabbing numerous students with a butcher knife, reportedly complained online before the attack about the treatment of Muslims throughout the world. And in an interview with Ohio State’s student newspaper earlier this year, Artan complained about the lack of prayer rooms on campus.
“I wanted to pray in the open, but I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media,” he said in that interview. “I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be.”
During the CNN segment, Camerota’s co-host, Chris Cuomo, suggested another solution for Muslim women who fear being attacked.
“I think self-defense training is good for everybody,” he said. “Prepare yourself for whatever can come.”
How about wearing a cross to show solidarity with fearful Christians? Will he ever say that?
OK alysin.....Pfft. cannot really say what I want to here, but if you shake her head it would sound like a can of nuts with only 2 nuts in it.
They must not even care anymore Trump has beaten them silly.
See that pic works for most of these idiots doesn’t it? LOL!~
Let’s see every CNN female in a burqa
Just to show their solidarity
I’m glad that isn’t my child
In this case the response is appropriate though
I used to like her / amazing what some people will morph into or adapt into in order to survive in that business.
I think a Crusader outfit is appropriate
Were the Kids who were run down and stabbed at OSU fearful?
They should have been.
I say we burn the hijabs. Because of free speech and all
Maybe they could carry a gun to show solidarity with NRA members.
Maybe they could carry a Bible to show solidarity with Christians.
Maybe they could wear a Trump ball cap to show solidarity with Trump supporters.
Maybe they could sport a walker to show solidarity with Hillary Clinton and her health problems.
This must be the most ludicrous suggestion of the year.
I’ll wear a pig grease soaked burning koran before I’d show solidarity to an evil cult like islam. ESAD islamo filth.
They can eat Bacon and pet my dog while singing God Bless America
Besides creating the Marines, what positive thing has Islam contributed to the USA?
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